Saturday 5th October 1918

Billets in Creazzo.

Training continued.

Pte. Fred Clayton (see 27^th September) was reported by Cpl. William McGill (see 11th September) as having ‘untidy kit’; on the orders of 2Lt. Sam Benjamin Farrant (see 27^th September) he was to be confined to barracks for seven days.

Capt. Bob Perks DSO (see 28^th September) re-joined the Battalion, more than a year after having been wounded during the attack on the village of Veldhoek on 20^th September 1917.

Capt, Bob Perks DSO

Image by kind permission of Janet Hudson

L.Sgt. Harold Best (see 20^th September) and Pte. Newton Dobson (see 26^th August) departed on seven days’ leave to Lake Garda.

Pte. John William Kirby (see 28^th May 1917) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 51^st Stationary Hospital; he was suffering from influenza. 

Ptes. William Shirtcliffe Mallinson (see 28^th July) and Herbert Stanley Smith (see 16^th June) were admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 23^rd Division Rest Station; both were suffering from scabies. Pte. Smith would be discharged and re-join the Battalion after two days, but Pte. Mallinson would remain under treatment.

Pte. Farrand Kayley (see 20^th August 1917), brother of Tunstill’s recruits James (see 4th January) and Job Kayley (see 29^th July 1916), who was serving in France with 1^st/6^th Battalion West Ridings as a transport driver, returned to England on two weeks’ leave.

Lt. Charles Frederick Wolfe (see 14^th July), former Transport Officer to 10DWR, now serving with the ASC, was posted to 435^th H.T. Company, based at Chatham.

Pte. Willie Holmes (see 27^th August), who had been admitted to hospital whilst home on leave, was discharged from the War Hospital in Dewsbury and posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon. Within days of reporting he would be admitted to the Camp Hospital for further treatment to the boils and carbuncles which had seen him admitted previously.

A medical report was prepared on the condition of Pte. Walter Eary (see 28^th September), who was being treated for a laryngeal tumour at Queen Mary’s Military Hospital, Whalley, Lancs. It was noted that, “An oesophygal bougie (tube) could not be passed through the thyroid level and caused some blood-stained mucous to be brought up. There is some cough with blood-stained expiration. There is very marked dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing). The disease is probably malignant”.